AutoPrime now resides on SourceForge.net

http://autoprime.de

Just a short note to our AutoPrime users: We finally moved the source code over to SourceForge.net. You can browse both the code for the main application as well as the part for the website of the service.

So far we just moved the files over to the cvs system and it will still need some minor cleanup to get development going over the new project site. At some point there will also be release packages available so that you can easily download and install the tool.

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Posted at: 19:59 | Permalink | category: /english/technical/projects

Keyboard article updated

Somehow I am still fascinated by the way Linux handles keyboards. I still fail to understand a lot of it but from time to time I update my little article on keystroke mangling in the Linux Kernel.

Since I tackled this topic in the book recently it saw some updates and significantly improved in quality. Though that does not change the fact that there is still a lot missing and I still have no clue how this all works in X.

Maybe next year.

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Posted at: 18:39 | Permalink | category: /english/technical

Vorfreude

(Bild von djmq)

Ach ja, da geht einem das Herz auf und die Sonne scheint herein. Frühling, Hitze und der ganze Krams... Kann ich doch drauf verzichten, wenn ich so ein schönes Winterbild sehe. Da fühlt man doch die prickelnde Kälte auf der Haut und es ergreift einen eine wilde Vorfreude. Man hofft geradezu, die warmen Tage mögen schnell vergehen...

Wie es geht Dir nicht um den Schnee? Du hast nur kein anderes Bild von der Stelle im Internet gefunden? Ja, das ist mir doch egal. So, Du ziehst da hin? Guck doch: Grau in Grau. Wird auch nicht anders sein als anderswo in Hamburg.

Pah, Altbau. Blödsinn, Zweisamkeit. Guck Dir doch mal die Flocken an. Da wird einem doch wohlig ums Herz. Da rieselt leise der Schnee... Umziehen... ne, wirklich...

Hamburg Wohnung Altbau

Posted at: 22:40 | Permalink | category: /deutsch/hamburg

layman-1.0.99: Supporting authenticated proxies

Another layman version with additional fixes went into the portage tree:

• Support for overlay lists over https (bug #163659)
• Fixed man page (bug #164746)
• Extended proxy support (authenticated proxies, respect http_proxy, bugs #150741, #167686, #168010)
• Removed the subversion dependency (bug #168203)
• Fixed exit codes (bug #171835)

The new version adds support for authenticated proxies which was the last feature on my list concerning layman. If there are no bugs being reported during the next weeks I'll mark this as layman-1.1 which I'll then consider feature complete. The package will be maintained until its functionality will be provided by portage or a potential portage successor.

Thanks to all the people providing patches or sending suggestions for improving layman!

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Posted at: 21:44 | Permalink | category: /english/technical/gentoo

Kolab on Gentoo: Horde progress IV

Since I am now being paid by the Kolab Konsortium to advance the Horde groupware web client integration with the Kolab groupware server Horde is really going to end up as a fully compatible Kolab client.

Initially I only planned fixing the most urgent structural problems but now the target is to enable Horde to even work with thousands of groupware objects (events, tasks etc.) at once so that the larger companies can actually use it without killing their Kolab server.

Luckily intra2net already implemented an IMAP caching system for the Horde::Kolab module that only needed to be restructured for the current Horde CVS version. This has been completed and now the Horde applications are being ported to the newer framework.

So far I did convert Mnemo (note management), Nag (tasks) and Thomas Jarosch from intra2net did Turba (addresses). So only Kronolith (events) remains to be converted.

There are still a number of fixes needed but when I use my Horde installation now I am already rather happy. The system reacts much quicker and I can have thousands of elements without problems.

Beyond that it is really, really nice being paid for open source development. I really hope that more and more applications will gain enough relevance in the business world so that this model becomes more and more common.

And finally a big thanks to all the users testing Horde at the moment. I know I am breaking a lot of stuff and half of the time it is not working at all but every little bit of input I get back from you helps improving the software. And I am really grateful for that.

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Posted at: 08:46 | Permalink | category: /english/technical/gentoo